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...Chicago river. Snobbish Chicagoans who see him eating there are impressed with what they call the democracy of this great millionaire who was once a soap crutcher. In modern times soap is crutched or mixed by a machine but in the soap factory of William Wrigley Sr., opposite Wayne Junction, Philadelphia, the soap crutcher stood beside a vat of boiling soap and stirred it with a paddle. When Wrigley Jr.-young Wrigley then-tired of developing his muscles in this way he persuaded his father to let him sell scouring soap on the road and before long was driving through...
...Grand Junction, Colo...
...branch from the main line will run: Dallas-Little Rock-Memphis (junction)-Louisville-Cincinnati-Columbus (competitive Transcontinental Air Transport take-off)-Pittsburgh. Then Pittsburgh-Washington and Pittsburgh-New York...
FRANCIS M. STIFLER Editor "The Main Liner" Ardmore, Pa. Grand Junction...
...past many years there has been much talk of changing the name of our city. It seems that the Postoffice Department gave our first settlers a choice of two names; Ute and Grand Junction, there being no alternative. Grand Junction was naturally selected as the better...